JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here is what I precisely wrote on the Blount and Belknap impeachment in The Executive Function Theory, The Hamilton Affair, And Other Constitutional Mythologies , 77 North Carolina Law Review 1791 (1999): 1. The impeachment of Senator William Blount of Tennessee may have been the most interesting both factually and legally.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. On July 8, 2021, a jury in Minnesota state court found four activists guilty of aiding and abetting fourth degree criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor offense.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Whitmer did violate the Constitution, as have other public officials in other states. However, this was a legal dispute on the scope of her discretion that was resolved by the state courts. It does not use “high crime or misdemeanors.”

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” ” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. What does that even mean?

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 25, 2023

He will plead guilty to two minor misdemeanor tax counts and a phantom felony count that will go away in time. He will declare himself guilty so the media and the political establishment can declare the scandal to be a closed matter: Nothing more to see here, other than a plea to a couple misdemeanors.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2021

Previously, I wrote about Hastings in addressing the bribery theories being voiced by Democratic leaders and legal experts in the first Trump impeachment. This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. This is only a question of the jurisdiction of the Senate.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 17, 2021

On its face, the planned impeachment trial is at odds with the language of the Constitution, which expressly states that removal of a president is the primary purpose of such a trial. He will be a citizen and would be best served legally to forgo the trial entirely as extraconstitutional and invalid.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This response in the form of an impeachment may be more important than a legal response in the form of a prosecution. It does not change my view of the meaning of high crimes or misdemeanors. At a time of lost confidence in the integrity of the government, the conduct of a former official can demand a political response.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

If there is a single line that sums up the sense of legal impunity in the second Trump impeachment, it is that line from a letter sent by law professors to deny any basis for the former president to challenge his impeachment on free speech grounds. “The First Amendment does not apply in impeachment proceedings.”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 26, 2023

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an “ unholy mess.” Weiss cut a deal with Hunter’s legal team that was widely derided. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), What followed has bordered on the burlesque.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here is the column: It seems the subject of Donald Trump , like necessity, is the mother of invention, at least when it comes to legal analysis. From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2021

There are cases which, even if legally brought, contain errors so significant they must be dismissed as unsound on prudential rather than constitutional grounds. The expectation was that the vote of high crimes and misdemeanors would not be a simply conclusory vote but supported in some form to meet the constitutional standard.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 16, 2022

Wild chose the commencement address to launch into a personal attack that accused me of being an example of the use of law for “wrongful ends.” ” She falsely accused me of changing a critical legal point in my testimony in the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings on whether impeachable conduct must be indictable crimes.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Watkins, a lawyer for Gibson, supported her claim of a criminal violation, citing the state’s revenge porn law. As shown below, the law makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to “maliciously” distribute nude or sexual images of another person with “intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate.” The Criminal Allegation Daniel P.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 27, 2022

” In modern American politics, it often seems like the only tool is impeachment and every controversy instantly becomes a high crime and misdemeanor. There is nothing in these messages that put Ginni Thomas in legal peril. Nevertheless, media and legal experts are clamoring for impeachment. Kamala Harris and Sen.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 21, 2021

Even law professors have succumbed to this low-grade form of debate. Figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe now regularly engage in profane and personal attacks when they disagree on political or legal issues. There would be no impulse-buy removals under the Constitution.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The House now has credible, compelling evidence that the president may have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. This is a constitutional process, not just some trash-talking cable show (although, admittedly, it was hard to tell at moments in the hearing). That is how an impeachment inquiry should begin. Because we do not know.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

While legal eagles will be analyzing every move, what citizens really need is an Philadelphia Eagles fan to understand what is unfolding. Swalwell’s comments not only include disturbing legal claims , but highly personal and offensive remarks like mocking threats against Susan Collins, R-Maine. In the NFL, it is called “tanking.”

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. Now even law deans have called Supreme Court justices “hacks” to the delight of their followers. I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.

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